Example sentences of "i [vb base] always [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know this morning it 's , I changed his nappy and I like always have a bottle of you know those |
| 2 | I 've always made a point of borrowing money from women early in the relationship so as to give them a hold over me . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've always made a point of avoiding married women , and engaged women fall into the same category . ’ |
| 4 | I 've always wanted a friend like that . ’ |
| 5 | I 've always wanted a sister ! ’ |
| 6 | Of course I 'd seen pictures and I 've always wanted a guitar like that . |
| 7 | Or ‘ I 've always wanted a bird 's eye view of the garden ’ ? |
| 8 | what Ken say I 've always wanted a pedestal |
| 9 | I 've always wanted a sheath knife . |
| 10 | So I wanted to remain a listener , still be excited by other people 's music and so I 've always remained a listener . |
| 11 | He came in one day and asked what M C C stood for , and I 've always known a lot of useless information , so I could tell him , so I was then dispatched everyday to the erm radio shop in the High Street , to get the cricket scores in Australia . |
| 12 | I 've always found a periscope to be a very useful accessory in these conditions . |
| 13 | Basically , yeah , if I want to , I 've always got a couple of boys to fall back on . |
| 14 | Mind you I 've always got a dog and a stick . |
| 15 | Well I do n't know as I d I d although to tell you the truth I 've always had a weakness for pictures ever since I was a boy . |
| 16 | Yes , I 've got my cat , it 's just gone out , yeah I 've got a cat , yes he 's a lovely little cat I 've got and he 's just gone out a little ginger and but I did have a dog but I , cos he , I had him several years here a beautiful little corgi he was and then I had to have him put to sleep because he had er water trouble , but then my doctor advised me that I , he said do n't have another dog have a cat , so I had a cat , I 've always had a cat though |
| 17 | ‘ I 've always had a drink , love . |
| 18 | I can do most things on that , but the one thing I 've always had a problem getting with that type of preamp setup is the kind of crunchy combo sound . |
| 19 | I 've always had a horror of the splits , though |
| 20 | ‘ I 've always had a battle with my weight . |
| 21 | ‘ You mentioned it during one of our first meetings so I 've always had a hankering to see how they 've done it . |
| 22 | I 've always had a feeling that United 's goal crisis was not the fault of Mark Hughes or Brian McClair but of problems around them — not least the inability of the midfield to score . |
| 23 | I am a trained nurse and I 've always had a weight problem . |
| 24 | I 've always had a theory about this particular food . |
| 25 | Hare , whose aggregate points in first-class matches totalled 7,233 , said yesterday : ‘ It 's a challenge and I 've always enjoyed a challenge . |
| 26 | I 've always preferred a Precision to a Jazz because of the way that a Precision plays . |
| 27 | I 've always talked a lot ! |
| 28 | I have always wanted a dining room under glass , so we are having a conservatory built along with a super , big kitchen complete with labour-saving appliances , including a microwave , which I find particularly good for cooking fish ; I do n't believe in ‘ sweatshop ’ kitchens . |
| 29 | I have always felt a proclivity for Kilburn . |
| 30 | Spreadsheets are primarily for analysis — or so I am constantly being told — but I have always had a problem reconciling that with what-if constructions . |